Re: [PATCH] man/man3/getopt.3: ffix

Alejandro Colomar
2025-12-19T16:49:07Z

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Hi Branden,

On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 10:31:44AM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Protect literals from hyphenation.
>
> Such explicit protection of man page cross references will be
> unnecessary when the Linux man-pages migrate to the `MR` macro of groff
> 1.23.0 man(7); that macro disables hyphenation of its first argument.
>
> Signed-off-by: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
> ---
> man/man3/getopt.3 | 16 ++++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/man/man3/getopt.3 b/man/man3/getopt.3
> index e7518192d..2ed7c7080 100644
> --- a/man/man3/getopt.3
> +++ b/man/man3/getopt.3
> @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION
> A legitimate option character is any visible one byte
> .BR ascii (7)
> character (for which
> -.BR isgraph (3)
> +.BR \%isgraph (3)

Please don't include those that will be unnecessary with MR.

Cheers,
Alex

> would return nonzero) that is not \[aq]\-\[aq], \[aq]:\[aq], or \[aq];\[aq].
> If such a
> character is followed by a colon, the option requires an argument, so
> @@ -137,14 +137,14 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION
> If the first character of
> .I optstring
> is \[aq]+\[aq] or the environment variable
> -.B POSIXLY_CORRECT
> +.B \%POSIXLY_CORRECT
> is set, then option processing stops as soon as a nonoption argument is
> encountered.
> If \[aq]+\[aq] is not the first character of
> .IR optstring ,
> it is treated as a normal option.
> If
> -.B POSIXLY_CORRECT
> +.B \%POSIXLY_CORRECT
> behaviour is required in this case
> .I optstring
> will contain two \[aq]+\[aq] symbols.
> @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ .SH RETURN VALUE
> otherwise \[aq]?\[aq] is returned.
> .SH ENVIRONMENT
> .TP
> -.B POSIXLY_CORRECT
> +.B \%POSIXLY_CORRECT
> If this is set, then option processing stops as soon as a nonoption
> argument is encountered.
> .SH ATTRIBUTES
> @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ .SH VERSIONS
> .IR const ,
> but these functions permute its elements
> unless the environment variable
> -.B POSIXLY_CORRECT
> +.B \%POSIXLY_CORRECT
> is set.
> .I const
> is used in the actual prototype to be compatible with other systems;
> @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ .SH HISTORY
> .P
> Very old versions of glibc were affected by a
> .UR https://\:sourceware.org/\:git/\:?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=bf079e19f50d64aa5e05
> -.BI _ PID _GNU_nonoption_argv_flags_
> +.BI \%_ PID _GNU_nonoption_argv_flags_
> environment variable
> .UE .
> .SH NOTES
> @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ .SH NOTES
> and \[aq]\-\[aq] at the start of
> .IR optstring ,
> or changes the value of
> -.B POSIXLY_CORRECT
> +.B \%POSIXLY_CORRECT
> between scans,
> must reinitialize
> .BR getopt ()
> @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ .SH NOTES
> to 0, rather than the traditional value of 1.
> (Resetting to 0 forces the invocation of an internal initialization
> routine that rechecks
> -.B POSIXLY_CORRECT
> +.B \%POSIXLY_CORRECT
> and checks for GNU extensions in
> .IR optstring .)
> .P
> --
> 2.30.2

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